Willie Nelson
Jan 3, 2011
Country legend Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel founder Ray Benson, who teamed up in 2009 for the "Willie & The Wheel" album and tour, are working together again. The sequel, "Willie & The Wheel II" is due out May 2011.
"We're calling it WWII and we'll have a World War II theme," Ray told The Boot blog and said the early version of album artwork showed the players in military uniforms. "We're going to have a lot of Western Swing and cuts from the '30s and '40s."
"One of the great things about Country [music] was always the diversity. Nashville doesn't know how to honor the diversity of country music now," said Ray. "It's now more of a business. Maybe it always was."
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By Karen Goodner
